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...Bible group. "I'm going to be busy as long as I can do it," says she. So are others. "As long as you can complain and be up and around, you're young," says 91-year-old Mrs. Ellen Wicklander as she stitches on a quilt...
...19th century ambience in six square blocks and twelve buildings, including a firehouse, hardware store and bank. Los Angeles has lined up Comedians Dick and Tom Smothers, former Astronaut Scott Carpenter, former Professional Football Star Roosevelt Grier and a dozen others to design and sew a Bicentennial Celebrity Quilt...
...Model Connie Kreski, is "a terrific woman but not my friend." He adds, as if to set things right, "Not that I want her to box with me." Luckily, Connie does not want marriage either. Says she: "Our house is Grand Central Station. I do my gardening and my quilt work. I suspect I'd become too possessive as a wife...
Sentiment is building in Congress to bring some kind of order to the system's crazy-quilt pattern and at the same tune increase payments. At present, benefits vary widely from state to state. The highest weekly maximum, $156 (with dependents), is made in Connecticut; the lowest, $60, in Mississippi. Of course, many people receive less than those maximums. The Administration has now called on all states to pay an amount equal to at least half a worker's average weekly take-home pay-up to a maximum of two-thirds of the average salary paid...
...details too often come embedded in crude ironies: The Gangbusters radio show on the sound track while the gang sits in front of a bank planning a heist, the repeated close-ups of a quilt where the lovers first make love and on which the dead Bowie is finally carried out. Most objectionable is the embarrassing instance when a radio production of Romeo and Juliet is played during Bowie and Keetchie's first rendezvous and each of the three times they make love the voice of the narrator illogically returns with the same "Thus did Romeo and Juliet consummate their...